Re: Intelligence and Statistics

From: Glen M. Sizemore (gmsizemore2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:50:14 -0400

GS: I know you weren't asking me, but I'll answer anyway. No. Just as I do
> not think it is reasonable to assert that gravitationally interacting
bodies
> "implement differential equations."

SN: Bill did not say such a thing. He said that it is **reasonable** to
*characterize* it as accomplishing unsupervised statistical analysis,
in the same vein that we can *characterize* the behavior of celestial
bodies by a set of differential equations.

GS: But to say that it is **reasonable** to *characterize* it as
accomplishing unsupervised statistical analysis ***is*** to "say such a
thing."

SN: We went to the Moon because
of this "characterization". We are begining to interface brains to
prosthetic mechanical arms because of similar neural "characterizations".
That's quite "reasonable", don't you think?

GS: What we say about the world in the form "laws" etc. is verbal behavior.
It allows us to predict and control the world, and it does so even when one
recognizes that the world doesn't "follow laws;" that is a metaphor extended
from locutions relevant to " following social laws." There is no calculation
of trajectories in gravitationally interacting bodies, just as there is no
"accomplishing unsupervised statistical analysis" in systems where we
describe statistical relations. So, getting to the Moon had everything to do
with our verbal behavior, and nothing at all to do with assumptions that the
Moon is calculating anything. And if brains are not "really" calculating
anything, than it is misleading, and quite stupid, to characterize them as
doing that.

With affection,

Glen

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